The group build build that never was... Checking out Tamiya's 1/700 King George V.

The group build build that never was... Checking out Tamiya's 1/700 King George V. What's in the box?

I was going to do this as part of a group bujild. In the end, the Scharnhorst took the place.
Let's have a look at how this went though.

The King George V-class battleships (Thank you Wiki) were the most modern British battleships in commission during the Second World War. Five ships of this class were built: HMS King George V (commissioned 1940), HMS Prince of Wales (1941), HMS Duke of York (1941), HMS Anson (1942) and HMS Howe (1942). The names honoured King George V, and his sons, Edward VIII, who had been Prince of Wales, and George VI who was Duke of York before ascending to the throne; the final two ships of the class were named after prominent 18th century admirals of the Royal Navy.

Checking out the box.
Images of other ships on the side. Not much help there.

Purchasing info on the ends.

Less than a British tenner. Under 12 Dollars. No comjplaints there. It's got to be reasonable value.

Tamya always fills the box.

It's a waterline hull.

Three sprues in a couple of bags.

A long weight. (You just have to, don't you?)

Adult supervision required.

Naked plastic alert.

Let's dig in.

Tamiya 1/700 King George V Building a Royal.

The first ship, I have built for a while so I'll keep it simple. Simply straight out of the box Tamiya's 1/700 King George V.

We did an unboxing earlier so let's get building.

Using PVA to secure the weight befor building up the hull.

Adding the front section of the deck...

A touch of paint on the deck and Hey presto.

I'll put the small AA gun mountings here too.

It's a lot of little guns...

The super structure comes next. I am so out of sinc with the instructions.
I want to be able to paint things first as I use a brush. Also, I'll refrain from adding some delicate parts until later.

Adding the small AA guns.

Stern.

Center

Bow

Adding the secondary guns

Adding the big guns.

From the bow.

From the stern...

Adding the masts and sticky up bits.

Stretched sprue rigging and boats.

Hull secured and painted.

It was at this point I had a major gravitational challenge meaning that I needed to rebuild the masts and rigging along with fighting with the carpet monster for a number of the smaller pieces.